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Seeing your family members or loved ones struggle can be painful and difficult. However, when they’re struggling with something that you don’t understand or haven’t experienced personally, like mental illness, it can feel impossible to help them. Here are a few suggestions that will teach you how to help a family member who is struggling … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/help-family-member-mental-illness/">Continued</a>
You know those people that have more than you? The people who take vacations, buy new clothes, or have influence? Life seems to come easily to them… Do you feel a subtle wave of envy and discontentment wash over you when you talk to them, see them, or look at their Instagram feed? Often, when … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/the-comparison-trap/">Continued</a>
It’s the little habits that can make the biggest difference in our lives—the difference between energy and lethargy, alertness and fogginess, determination and hopelessness. Those are big things that are completely achievable, if you give your mind and body the right tools! Here are a few key habits that are core factors in your body … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/simple-habits-big-change/">Continued</a>
Mental disorders are usually the result of chemicals and hormones in the brain becoming unbalanced. When this is the case, mindfulness and self-care are only a small part of what needs to be a large treatment. Sometimes, the most effective option involves medication that can chemically correct the imbalance causing so many issues. When to … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/considering-medication-treatment/">Continued</a>
So many people live day to day in a frustrating struggle, unaware that those struggles have names (like depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, PTSD, etc.)… and that knowing those names can provide them with a sense of control over those struggles, rather than the feeling of being controlled by them! Taking even generic, online tests … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/psych-personality-testing/">Continued</a>
Need to bring some calm back into your life? The stresses of everyday tasks can be a lot to handle without some relieving outlets! Here are a few therapeutic practices you can try that will help you regain control over your mind and give it the “reset” it needs to work its best! Mindfulness or … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/therapeutic-practices-can-try/">Continued</a>
Stress is a natural part of everyone’s lives. It can be a source of motivation for action or effort, or a means of focus or alertness. If unchecked or left to expand to all aspects of your life, that stress can become full blown anxiety that is significantly more difficult to control. Knowing the most … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/common-causes-stressors-anxiety/">Continued</a>
Think about the people in your life that you know struggle to feel confident, or seen and heard, or who are going through a hard situation in their lives. It can be difficult to know how you as their friend can best help them through these hard things and feelings. However, simply being a “shoulder … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/being-a-shoulder-to-lean-on/">Continued</a>
Author: Kelsey Piller “Life would be so much easier if I didn’t think this way.” If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to control your thoughts, you’re in good company. Many people at one point or another will experience intrusive thoughts, ones that they struggle to control or understand. Fortunately, there are techniques and practices that … <a href="https://peakpsychservices.com/blog/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/">Continued</a>